Cutting out garments

For the past week, I have been cutting out garments. 
Winter is good for laying out lots of yardage on your extended dining table.

I've cut out nightgowns and p.j. pants, some waffle shirts, and a jacket out of silk.  I have a laundry basket now full of garments stacked all cut out and ready to go, and I found that if you fold all the pieces on themselves, then tie with a ribbon (like a package) you can layer all the tied packets, together with their patterns, and then I will just pull one off the top when I go to sew and all the instructions are there, and the pattern picture reminds me what I cut out.

This beats the alternative which is two small boys snatching the pieces and spreading them all over the room for you to pick up!  Ah well, and it is also much better than the trash bag I used to group that pieces from the last garment I cut out.

The weather has been ideal for doing stuff around the house, and I am getting a jump on my spring cleaning.  You can only clean so long before it is time for fun, so we cut out Valentine's Day hearts and taped them up on the wall, I taped, little boy put them on the wall.

I have been checking out embroidery designs on the web (love these line type designs), making chicken noodle soup, and in general staying inside out of the rain.  It surely helps one get to the bottom of the laundry pile as well.

I've been trying to learn to use Lightroom 4.  So far, I'm operational, but there is so much more to learn.  Thank God for YouTube, or it would be going a lot slower.  It does make a lot of your really bad photos look almost passable, which is nice.  And maybe eventually I will get them organized.

My machines are due back soon from service, so hopefully I can get all those packages of ready cut garments sewn up!